On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:51:29PM -0600, Mandeep Ahuja wrote: > I have an embedded system thats has mips processor. I recently updated > to Kernel 2.6.10 from 2.4.17. > I was able to run the kernel and mount the jffs2 file system. > > When the system starts the load average is low like 0.02 but, after > about 2 minutes it becomes 1.00 and as long as the system is idle it > stays at 1.00. If the system is not idle it would go up to like 1.21 but > eventually come down to 1.00 but NEVER goes below 1. > > There is no application running on the system. Only the busybox. Top > shows all processes sleeping. > > this is the version of kernel > Linux version 2.6.10_dev-malta-mips2_fp_len (gcc version 3.4.6) > > Is there something holding the processor continuously? does anyone have > any idea whats going on?. > > I need to figure this one out before I start my application on it!. Usually the reason would be something like a process stuck in noninterruptible sleep state. That's status "D" in the ps output. Such a process can't be killed and generally if a process is in this state for extended time this would be considered a bug. Ralf
